British fighters are treated like **** by American fans and pundits for the most part. They hate European fighters, but us Brits especially.

I feel it's because many in the USA don't want to accept the fact that they're not a powerhouse in the sport of boxing anymore, at least not as big of a powerhouse as they were a few decades ago. They won **** all at the Olympics and haven't had a American heavyweight champion in years (that's why the try and ignore the Klitschko bros legacy). They still like to believe that their fighters are better than everyone else's however.

They call Mayweather a living legend and one of the best ever. Do you think they'd call him that if he were from another country besides the USA? Not a chance I don't reckon. He'd just be a "good fighter" who "cherry picks his opponents" like they said about Joe Calzaghe.

American boxing fans have declined or are just not as interested in the sport anymore. If a Mexican fighter or a European fighter fights in his home country or city he sells it out. Very few Americans are able to do that.

All of this has contributed to many Americans feeling uncomfortable that their country isn't producing the amount of quality fighters they were in years past. So when a fighter from a foreign country (Britain especially) comes along to try and challenge one of their special guys they immediately slate and try to downplay him. (e.g. Hatton, Brook, Burns, Calzaghe and even Froch for a while as well). Only a handful of foreign fighters in the sport are treated well by the USA boxing media and that's only because of the fact they're based and promoted over there (e.g. Pacquaio, Khan and Lennox Lewis to name a few).

I never really go on the general only if I was extremely bored and the Brit forum was quiet, there are too many threads to keep up with. The few times I had been on there it was largely obnoxious american's that there is little point in debating with as they will rarely take your points on board or offer much interesting discussion back. They all slate Lewis then when a Klitschko argument comes up do the "Lewis TKO6" thing!

I can see why they think Brits are glass jawed as most of our fighters that appeared on American TV have been stopped in the last couple of years with Froch aside. High profile brutal KO's of Hatton (twice) and TKO for Khan against Garcia, plus to a lesser extent Murray, Macklin, Barker all getting stopped on american soil recently. They're not schooled enough in British or world Boxing to remember the chins of Clinton Woods, Eubank, Naseem Hamed, Calzaghe etc. Even Lewis, for a man with a glass jaw seemed to take Vitali and Holyfields best shots extremely well!

There are quite a few reasonable guys over at the GF but they're sounded out by too many self-absorbed idiots. On the Americans criticising our fighters, it's simple for me. People from the US seem to have this notion that they were born with a bigger pot to **** in. Their post 1776 rhetoric and hatred for the UK is quite pathetic - US calls it bull**** I believe.

Every generation or so a shift takes place in almost every industry that shakes up the existing paradigm. It's happened in boxing and they don't seem to like it.

Part of the hostility derives from tribalism, national rivalries, ignorance, etc. The UK is the US's little brother in the boxing world, so what occurs here will be critiqued by those overseas and will have greater scrutiny applied than that applied to some loud mouthed quasi-kraut in a Belorussian backwater.

Equal part of the hostility occurs because we've been unlucky with certain fighters getting a lot of hype but never really testing themselves on the big stage at the earliest opportunity, and generally not justifying that hype either with their skills or mentality if and when they do 'step up'.

Any fighter who comes along who is half decent and marketable is hyped up so much they feel obliged to pretend to be heir to the pound-for-pound throne. I now refer to that as Amir Khan Syndrome. Highly contagious, has spread to the Travelling community and Sheffield. Old school humility is the only known cure. Our media is dishonest with their expectations and ****yses of fighters and it's no surprise that annoys people overseas.

Then there is the Calzaghe Deficiency, which is a type of German-influenza symptomatic of grabbing an empty accolade and using it to generate a lot of money in fights of little consequence over a number of unremarkable years. This disease has largely passed into history although Cleverly may present a carrier-risk.

If you notice, Carl Froch gets a lot of respect for those overseas. This is a guy who is hardly humble, but he hasn't had the hype, doesn't claim to be something he's not, and has consistently fought the best and maximised the effectiveness of his skill-set.